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February 16, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday February 18, 2018 from 2-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM from the funeral home on Monday February 19th, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Mildred Wilkin, age 95 of Wayne passed away peacefully on Friday, February 16, 2018 in the presence of and while receiving the loving care of her family.
She was born to Walter and Alice Shea in Jersey City, New Jersey and raised on Lindley Avenue in Tenafly. She lived at 554 Elizabeth Avenue in Rivervale, New Jersey, and spent her retirement years with her late husband William in Las Vegas, Nevada, before moving to Wayne in 2010.
Mildred graduated from Tenafly High School with the Class of 1940. After high school she worked as a bookkeeper for the Okonite Corporation in New York City before dedicating herself to raising her family.
Mildred moved to Rivervale, New Jersey just after marrying her lifelong friend, and high school sweetheart, William Wilkin. Their parents were also longtime neighborhood friends in Tenafly. Mildred and William fell in love and corresponded while he served in the US Army during WWII. Upon his return from the military they married on April 14, 1951 at Mount Carmel Church in Tenafly. They honeymooned in Florida and had a loving and devoted fifty year marriage that was blessed with a daughter Barbara before William’s passing in 2001.
Mildred and William enjoyed traveling. You would be hard pressed to find a place they haven’t been to. They also were proud to say they had visited all 50 of the United States. Mildred will be lovingly remembered as being devoted to her Catholic faith, an avid reader, smart, self-taught person in many facets of life, who loved her 4 PM Southern Comfort Manhattans.
She was the loving mother of Barbara Forlenza and her husband Jay of Wayne; cherished grandmother of John Forlenza and his wife Michele, Deana Swanson and her husband Joe, and Nicole Forlenza and her fiancé Andrew; much loved great-grandmother of Aubrey Forlenza; dear sister of the late Agatha “Chickie” Woods and the late Walter Shea.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made in Mildred's name to Ennoble Care Hospice LLC, 2 University Plaza Drive, Suite 204, Hackensack, NJ 07601-6211
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Friends may visit with the family on Sunday February 18, 2018 from 2-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM from the funeral home on Monday February 19th, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
February 16, 2018
Services
Friends may visit with the family on Sunday February 18, 2018 from 2-6 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Funeral services will be held 9:30 AM from the funeral home on Monday February 19th, then to Immaculate Heart of Mary RC Church, 580 Ratzer Road, Wayne where a 10:30 AM Funeral Mass will be offered.
Mildred Wilkin, age 95 of Wayne passed away peacefully on Friday, February 16, 2018 in the presence of and while receiving the loving care of her family.
She was born to Walter and Alice Shea in Jersey City, New Jersey and raised on Lindley Avenue in Tenafly. She lived at 554 Elizabeth Avenue in Rivervale, New Jersey, and spent her retirement years with her late husband William in Las Vegas, Nevada, before moving to Wayne in 2010.
Mildred graduated from Tenafly High School with the Class of 1940. After high school she worked as a bookkeeper for the Okonite Corporation in New York City before dedicating herself to raising her family.
Mildred moved to Rivervale, New Jersey just after marrying her lifelong friend, and high school sweetheart, William Wilkin. Their parents were also longtime neighborhood friends in Tenafly. Mildred and William fell in love and corresponded while he served in the US Army during WWII. Upon his return from the military they married on April 14, 1951 at Mount Carmel Church in Tenafly. They honeymooned in Florida and had a loving and devoted fifty year marriage that was blessed with a daughter Barbara before William’s passing in 2001.
Mildred and William enjoyed traveling. You would be hard pressed to find a place they haven’t been to. They also were proud to say they had visited all 50 of the United States. Mildred will be lovingly remembered as being devoted to her Catholic faith, an avid reader, smart, self-taught person in many facets of life, who loved her 4 PM Southern Comfort Manhattans.
She was the loving mother of Barbara Forlenza and her husband Jay of Wayne; cherished grandmother of John Forlenza and his wife Michele, Deana Swanson and her husband Joe, and Nicole Forlenza and her fiancé Andrew; much loved great-grandmother of Aubrey Forlenza; dear sister of the late Agatha “Chickie” Woods and the late Walter Shea.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made in Mildred's name to Ennoble Care Hospice LLC, 2 University Plaza Drive, Suite 204, Hackensack, NJ 07601-6211
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